Course info

This course will consider how cross-cultural studies of language and language ideologies can challenge our received notions of what gender is and how language, gender, and sexuality are interconnected.
Among the topics covered are: institutional language and power; gender identity and language use; cultural definitions of "masculinity" and "femininity" and their relationship to language use; sexual orientation and linguistic expression; and the social construction and expression of sexual and gender identities through linguistic performance.